Last Sunday’s win, the first in Raptor history, was the best I’d seen us play as a team. Everything was rolling along really. Pitching, Jake was awesome, defence, was awesome despite the rough infield which caused a number of bad hops and the offence, which has put up 19 runs or more in the last two games.

On a personal level it was another successful game, probably my best of the young season. It was the first time I’d really been tested in regards to working the count- before all I was looking for were hits regardless of the count- but on Sunday I was forced to work really hard for two of my walks. Both times I fell behind in the count 0-2 and managed to draw a walk, by fouling pitches off and taking some borderline calls. That was probably the part of my game on Sunday I was happiest about, or felt the biggest improvement in, since it is very easy to just give up in an unfavourable count.

Defensively, despite being errorless in the season since becoming a second baseman, I have to improve. It seems at training everybody has their opinion on what needs fixing mechanically, which is fine since I want to be the best I can be, but a lot of information I get can be conflicting so it’s hard to sort it all out mentally. Luckily last Wednesday I was fortunate enough to observe Kimi as he trained with me at second- so hopefully some of his fielding, well general baseball, magic rubbed off on me.

Also, since the scoring machine has been broken for the last two games I kept track of what I’ve done this season in case anybody is interested.

GP    AB    H    AVG    R    2B    3B    HR    RBI    BB    SB    K    OBP    SLG
3       15      9  .600   7     2       1     0       5       3       7      2     .667     .867